Recently I'm seeing a lot more renditions of the art style that originated, I think, with that movie "Mirrormask" last year. That movie had a lot of scenery that resembled the Industrial Age, but it was a weird deconstructed (eh?) version. This is appearing more and more on the world wide web. It somewhat resembles the Industrial Age with the metalworks and the old school physics being deployed.
There are quite a few digital paintings on the internets which, to be entirely honest, are remarkably detailed and gorgeous. They look like the artist has immense talent and has painstakingly planned the work. In the most general terms, it reminds one of the technology and innovation that mushroomed up [[, spread out, engulfed???? perpetuated]]]] during the Victorian era.
Back then during the actual Victorian Era, the world sprouted cartographers, science, molecular biology. There were the beginnings twinklings inklings of science as an official academic discipline, to be taught in school alongside orthography, mathematics, and history. Darwinian evolution eagle-soared. They classified taxonomy groups of bipedal, quadrupeds as initiated by Carolus Linnaeus. The 1800s weren't primitive. We had electricity, steam engines, telephones, photographic cameras, the beginnings of cars. We knew quite a bit about medicine and physiology.
But this current design remix thing is without the grace, the optimism, or the inherent beauty that truly characterized the 1800s. This new no-rendition genre version is missing the innocence and wonder of the actual 1800s. It kind of looks like someone took a bunch of Industrial Age trinkets and curios from the days of yore, and smashed them with a mallet. This hammer-smasher then half-assedly made an attempt to repair it, and superglued it together. At this point this current rehash version looked like a broken vase with chips and jagged edges, and the telltale clumpy brick-mortar glue straining to hold it together. The hammer-smasher then did the fake poseur artsy-fartsy thing-- stood back and pretended there is sooo much in-depth hidden mysterious meaning and the rest of us are just "ignorant" for not understanding that.
This reloaded version is sort of a wasteland and is rather depressing looking.
There are quite a few digital paintings on the internets which, to be entirely honest, are remarkably detailed and gorgeous. They look like the artist has immense talent and has painstakingly planned the work. In the most general terms, it reminds one of the technology and innovation that mushroomed up [[, spread out, engulfed???? perpetuated]]]] during the Victorian era.
Back then during the actual Victorian Era, the world sprouted cartographers, science, molecular biology. There were the beginnings twinklings inklings of science as an official academic discipline, to be taught in school alongside orthography, mathematics, and history. Darwinian evolution eagle-soared. They classified taxonomy groups of bipedal, quadrupeds as initiated by Carolus Linnaeus. The 1800s weren't primitive. We had electricity, steam engines, telephones, photographic cameras, the beginnings of cars. We knew quite a bit about medicine and physiology.
But this current design remix thing is without the grace, the optimism, or the inherent beauty that truly characterized the 1800s. This new no-rendition genre version is missing the innocence and wonder of the actual 1800s. It kind of looks like someone took a bunch of Industrial Age trinkets and curios from the days of yore, and smashed them with a mallet. This hammer-smasher then half-assedly made an attempt to repair it, and superglued it together. At this point this current rehash version looked like a broken vase with chips and jagged edges, and the telltale clumpy brick-mortar glue straining to hold it together. The hammer-smasher then did the fake poseur artsy-fartsy thing-- stood back and pretended there is sooo much in-depth hidden mysterious meaning and the rest of us are just "ignorant" for not understanding that.
This reloaded version is sort of a wasteland and is rather depressing looking.